Disconnected in isolation: How the coronavirus pandemic shed light on the digital divide [telecom]

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By Mike Siegel

When Daria Smith moved to South Seattle, she wasn't planning to get the internet any time soon. It's expensive, and she had other, more pressing bills to pay.

But her priorities shifted after the Auburn School District sent her son and daughter, ages 14 and 13, home in the middle of March because of the coronavirus pandemic.